LayerKit's newConversationWithParticipants always throws FMDatabase "not an error" on first call

Question

I'm using LayerKit 0.17.3 with Swift and newConversationWithParticipants always throws an error on first time, with the domain set to FMDatabase and with a "not an error" error. Any subsequent call gets expected result.

Initial error:

Error with creating LYRConversation: Error Domain=FMDatabase Code=0 "not an error"
UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=not an error}

Subsequent errors: (desired)

Error with creating LYRConversation: Error Domain=com.layer.LayerKit.Errors
Code=1013 "A conversation with a distinct participant list already exists
for participants [...]

Here's the function to find/create the conversation:

@IBAction func didTapCompose(sender: AnyObject) {
    var conversation : LYRConversation?

    // create ATLConversationViewController
    let controller = ConversationViewController(layerClient: self.layerClient)
    controller.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true;

    // get recipient (user objectID) from member object
    let recipient = member.objectForKey(GlobalConstants.Parse.UserKey)?.objectId!
    // create set for newConversationWithParticipants
    let participants : Set = [recipient!]

    do {
        try conversation = layerClient.newConversationWithParticipants(participants, options: nil)
        controller.conversation = conversation
    } catch {
        print("Error with creating LYRConversation: \(error)")
    }
    self.navigationController!.pushViewController(controller, animated: true)
}

Answer 1

Support over at Layer.com stated at this is a bug and will be fixed in the next release.

Answer 2

This is still broken, the above answer says the version is at 0.17.4, but cocoapod is still at 0.17.3 https://cocoapods.org/?q=layerkit

It is still breaking on my project

Answer 3

Layer does not create conversations with same participants by default. You have to set the distinct flag to false in options while creating.

Tested with layerkit 0.17.4.

options = [LYRConversationOptionsDistinctByParticipantsKey : false]
let conversation = layerClient.newConversationWithParticipants(participants, options: options)